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By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
No alarms will ring, no sirens wiil
go off, but at exactly 8 a.m. on
Saturday, April 13, hundreds and
hundreds of area residents standing
shoulder-to-shouider along the
shores of the lakes and streams will
cast their lines in the water. It
makes one wonder whether or not
they have synchronized their
watches, the timing is so exact.
Husbands and wives, fathers and
sons, and, in many instances, entire
families will be out the first day of
trout season hoping to catch their
limit of trout, Pennsylvania’s most
popular fresh water fish.
Bob Perry, assistant supervisor at
the Fish Commission Office in
Sweet Valley, said that the sale of
licenses to-date indicates that the
number of fishermen will be about
the same as last year.
Fishing has grown in popularity
during the past several years and is
now referred to by the Fish Com-
mission officials and other sports-
men as a ‘family sport.” Families
pack lunches, take the children, no
matter how young they may be, and
look forward to enjoying the day in
the out-of-doors, especially if the
weather is warm and the sun shin-
ing.
No matter what their worries or
problems might be, sitting on the
shore, rod in the water or walking
areas, the fisherman or woman
finds time to dream, reflect or block
out the realities of the world for a
few hours. Children too young to
fish have fun playing along the
shore or, when it is warm enough,
wading in shallow water.
The Fish Commission will have
stocked lakes and streams with
more than two million fish by April
13, with most of them probably
larger than any released in previous
years.
The mild, late Fall gave the trout
an opportunity to grow to an aver-
age 9.5 inches, weighing about half
pound.
An additional 51 miles of stocked
trout waters were stocked this year
but at the same time local areas
lost some stocked waters. Mountain
Springs and Bowmans Creek in
Luzerne County will not be stocked
this year because of acid rain.
Harveys Lake, which according to
Perry, is one of the most popular
waters for the first day of trout
season, this year, for the first time
in a number of years, was stocked
with rainbow trout. More than 9,000
rainbow and more than 9,000 brown
trout were released in the lake and
also some palominos.
Palominos are a hybrid fish and
do not reproduce. Neither are they a
fighting fish and most of them are
caught the first day. Most waters
were stocked with some palominos
in addition to the brown trout, brock
trout and rainbows released in the
trout streams and lakes approved
by the state.
In addition to the Fish Commis-
sion’s stocking fish, sportsmen’s
groups will stock hundreds of thou-
sands of trout in public waters. The
federal hatcheries will also provide
trout for stocking federally-owned
waters.
Harveys Lake is the most popular
fishing spot the opening day of the
season, but also popular are Har-
veys Creek, Lehigh River, Hunting-
don Creek, Bowman’s Creek, Pine
Creek and Fishing Creek, the last
one in Columbia County.
Perry said if it is a nice day, a
record crowd will probably be out
but if is cloudy and cold, the
streams high or low, fewer fisher-
men will be out all day. Trout,
however, are a cold water fish and
cold weather will not stop them
from biting.
Worms ' are the most universal
bait but many of the anglers use
minnows, salmon eggs, lures or
flies. Many of the fishermen tie
their own flies and a wide variety of
colors, sizes and shapes will be
found the first Sa
Dallas Post/Judie Mathers
Oh, oh! This fishing widow
knows what's happening
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
Saturday, April 13, marks the opening of trout season but it marks
more than that in our house. My husband is a fisherman (that’s what
he calls it.)
Chest-high waders and hip boots take up space on our basement
floor. A battered hat and vest covered with tied flys hang nearby.
Two large tackle boxes lay open on his work bench — with orders
from him: ‘Don’t touch, you'll mix up my lures and spinners.”
Mix them up! How can I? Every compartment is heaped with this
or that. If I can’t make sense out of it, how can a poor fish tell ‘what’s
what’ in the murky, cold waters of a lake or stream. Oh, let’s not
forget his new $100 fly rod.
Two new, large coolers have appeared from nowhere. They are for
fish and the food for the weekend, I'm told. The one will hold dry ice
to keep the fresh fish until the anglers return home; the other, steaks,
sandwich meat, cheese, and, of course, beer, plus an extra case or
two.
What fishing weekend would be a success without beer, ham and
cheese, and a deck of cards?
The worm bed in our one-time landscape backyard has been
carefully cultivated during the past month and those large, wriggly,
creatures are now bedded under rich, black loam (?) in a box in our
basement, waiting for Friday night — takeoff time for the cabin in
the distant county where he (my husband) and his fishing buddies
will spend the weekend.
Believe me, this is only the beginning! This is our regular routine
from now through September. Gone are our weekends of dining out in
our favorite restaurants; gone are our Sunday afternoons or evenings
of entertaining and playing Trivia. No weekends to Atlantic City or to
visit friends in other states.
Qur only communication for the next 10 to 12 weekends will be ‘See
you, Sunday’ or “Come see these, Charlot!” “These” are dead fish
staring at me! I don’t even like fish, the taste nor the scent — it turns
me off!
“You don’t know what you're missing”’ he and his friends tell me.
They don’t know that I do know — I'm missing getting wet to my
waist or wading in icy streams. I am missing bugs buzzing around
my head or the sudden shower that comes from nowhere. I'm missing
soggy sandwiches that have been in a pocket from early morning and
I am missing cold beer which I never drink. I am missing wading
through mud, or stumbling upon dead animals killed by freezing
weather or starvation.
I do miss dinner for two at my favorite restaurant. I miss my
husband’s company on a Sunday afternoon when we would have a few
friends in and enjoy a game or two of cards or Trivia. I miss him
preparing dinner on a Saturday or Sunday and I do miss the trips we
could take together if he preferred that to fishing. I know what I'm
missing, but does he?
I also realize that, like it or not, I am a fishing widow. Unlike many
wives, however, 1 refuse to go fishing to enjoy my husband’s
company. I don’t eat fish; I don’t like baiting hooks; I don’t enjoy
wading streams; I don’t like fishing.
So give him his ham and cheese, his beer and fly rod. I'll take my
Tab, steak dinner and going out with other fishing widows!
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take a 6-1 lead.
By CHARLOT M. DENMON
Staff Correspondent
In their first game in the Wyo-
ming Valley Girls Softball League
last Thursday, the Dallas Mountai-
neers scored four runs in the fifth
inning to overtake the Pittston
Patriots and go on to win the game,
9-6.
Lisa Gabel led at the plate with
three hits and drove in three runs to
set the winning pace for the Moun-
taineers. She drove out a two-run
double in the top of the second
inning to give Dallas a 3-0 lead.
In the bottom half of the second,
Pittston Area scored five runs on
four hits to move into the lead. The
Mountaineers added a run in the top
of the fourth to come within one run
of tying it up.
In the fifth inning, singles by
Gabel, Kim Rinehimer and Heidi
Gymnastics set
The Wilkes-Barre YMCA will
sponsor the Northeastern Pennsyl-
vania Gymnastic Championships on
April 14.
Many girls from the Back Moun-
tain area are in this event and they
need support. We hope to see a
great: turnout so mark April 14: on
your calendar.
Gridiron Club meets
The Dallas Gridiron Club will hold
a meeting on Tuesday, April 23, at 8
p.m. at the Dallas American
Legion.
All interested people are urged to
attend this meeting. The jayvee
game from last year’s Coughlin vs.
Dallas game will be shown.
Certificates available
Members of the Back Mountain
Soccer Clinic, who did not receive
their certificates, Wednesday, April
3, at the Dallas Township Elemen-
tary School, may pick them up at
either the baked goods or novelty
tables, Saturday, April 20, at the
Back Mountain Soccer Parents
Bazaar and Flea Market, in the
Dallas Senior High School gymna-
sium.
Soccer registration
The Back Mountain Youth Soccer
Association will hold registrations
for the 1985 season on Saturday,
April 20 and Saturday, April 27,
from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Site of this
year’s registration will be the Col-
lege Misericordia cafeteria at Mer-
rick Hall.
Registration is open to boys and
girls ages 6 to 15 as of December 31,
1985. This year’s fee is $15.00 each
for the first and second child, and
$10.00 each for the third and fourth
child of the same family.
Scholze coupled with a sacrifice and
a Patriot error gave the Mountai-
neers the runs they needed for the
win.
Sophomore hurler Lisa Sharkness
picked up her first win on the
mound, giving up 10 hits while
fanning four and walking four.
Joyce Tinner drove out a triple for
the Mountaineers.
Tracy Pahl led the Patriots with
three-for-four at the plate and Chris
McNulty and pitcher Sue Charney
had two each. Charney gave up
eight hits, struck out two and
walked three Mountaineers.
COACH PLEASED
Dallas Coach Jay Pope said he
was well pleased with the girls in
their first time out this season.
“We were behind going into the
fifth inning but the girls didn’t give
up and sophomore Lisa Sharkness
pitched a nice game for her first
ANOTHER NO-HITTER
Lake-Lehman’s sophomore hurler
Beth Finn pitched a no-hitter last
Thursday against Bishop Hoban at
Kirby Park to lead the Knights to a
10-6 win. She fanned 17 and none of
the Argents hit a ball out of the
infield. She had problems with con-
trol, however, as she walked 10 and
threw five wild pitches. The Lady
Knights also had several errors
which accounted for the six runs by
the Argents.
Powerful hitting at the plate sup-
ported Finn as Cindy Slocum drove
out a homerun and a double, and
Sue Slocum, Sandy Dicton, Noelle
Kuznicki and Kelly Wandel knocked
out two hits each.
The Knights are a young team
and Coach Finn said, before the
season opened, she expected they
would make mistakes. She pre-
dicted the girls would improve as
the season continued.
Beth’s trouble came in the sev-
senior high varsity game.” Pope
said. ‘She has pitched in summer
softball but this was her first expe-
rience in the high school league.
The girls hit decently although they
can and, I believe, they will do
better as the season continues.”
He said the Patriots are a good
team and it was a good win for his
girls. Pope also was pleased with
Gabel, Tinner and Scholze’s per-
formance at the plate.
The Mountaineers were scheduled
to meet West Side Tech at home,
Monday, and Nanticoke on Thurs-
day.
pitch gave them three runs. In the
her 17 strikeouts. The Knights big
inning came in the fifth when they
scored five runs. The local girls
turned in 13 hits in the game.
Two freshmen did the mound
work for the Argents with Judy
Senk, who pitched five innings cred-
ited with the loss. Chris Eustice
hurled two innings. Senk fanned one
and walked one, Eustice walked
one.
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